walktoanarcade:The French can be so stupid and hardheaded sometimes; ironically the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

Textopornographie is a gross over simplification too. Not all naked pictures are porn, damnit.

walktoanarcade:The French can be so stupid and hardheaded sometimes; ironically the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

Not to be that guy, but I don't know a single person that says or ever said "day-vay-days" or even the english version. It's de-fau-de. Just the letters pronounced in german. But you are right we don't give a fark about english idioms and expressions bleeding into our language and frankly I'd love to have a word as versatile as fark.

On the other hand you are welcome for rucksack, kindergarten, angst and the like.

Public Savant:walktoanarcade: the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

I think the germans would've said "de-ve-des". Maybe you just heard someone trying to say it in english?

No, what I meant was, since DVDs were not invented by Germans, but they have to have a name for them regardless; instead of phonetically pronouncing them as the transliterated "day fowf day" which would be natural for the language, they refuse to fight against the current and go with the original pronunciation "dee vee dee"

I messed up by transliterating "day" "vay" "day", but the pronunciation is correct on the "d"s for a German if they were standing by Germanic pronunciation.

I used "f"s on the "v" for the non-used Germanic transliteration pronunciation because "v" is pronounced as an "f" in German.

When I was in Paris I witnessed a middle-aged French woman in a Citroen accidentally brush up against a younger French woman riding a bicycle. No one was injured, but their post-accident screaming match was better than years of scrambled late-night Cinemax.

Conversely, later that same year in Kiev I witnessed a screaming match between two Ukranian truck drivers that was like watching drunken cossacks use your grandmother as a cudgel to murder a room full of puppies.

AverageAmericanGuy:I don't see how this is very much different from the OED officially introducing words into the English language every year. I think "twerking" was a new one in 2013.

Au contraire, the OED don't make up these words, and didn't introduce them into English. You made up the words, they merely added existing words to their catalogue of existing words. A sane reaction, one would think.

I'm curious about "texto", because that looks awfully like "text", but with an "o" added to the end, it's faux French.

I watched a video of a Dutchman talking in Dutch, and English words slip in seamlessly, even with the English accent. In English we happily use other languages words, we take a small amount of schadenfreude in seeing the French react with such hostility. C'est la vie.

poodle's core:walktoanarcade: The French can be so stupid and hardheaded sometimes; ironically the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

Not to be that guy, but I don't know a single person that says or ever said "day-vay-days"

me either. Never been to Germany or Austria, or any other German speaking country, but I have also never heard "DVD" pronounced "day vay day" And "day" is just my version of "de" as you're doing.

poodle's core:walktoanarcade: The French can be so stupid and hardheaded sometimes; ironically the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

Not to be that guy, but I don't know a single person that says or ever said "day-vay-days" or even the english version. It's de-fau-de. Just the letters pronounced in german. But you are right we don't give a fark about english idioms and expressions bleeding into our language and frankly I'd love to have a word as versatile as fark.

On the other hand you are welcome for rucksack, kindergarten, angst and the like.

rorgus:poodle's core: walktoanarcade: The French can be so stupid and hardheaded sometimes; ironically the Germans gave up a long time ago and and "Komputer" is now "computer" and DVDs are pronounced "dee-vee-dees" not "day-vay-days."

Not to be that guy, but I don't know a single person that says or ever said "day-vay-days" or even the english version. It's de-fau-de. Just the letters pronounced in german. But you are right we don't give a fark about english idioms and expressions bleeding into our language and frankly I'd love to have a word as versatile as fark.

On the other hand you are welcome for rucksack, kindergarten, angst and the like.

Mr. Coffee Nerves:Conversely, later that same year in Kiev I witnessed a screaming match between two Ukranian truck drivers that was like watching drunken cossacks use your grandmother as a cudgel to murder a room full of puppies.

I know you lot like your annual let's mock the French for trying to keep their language, but remember that:1. there's no language police, no one will drag you to Devil's Island for uttering an english word2. the Académie Française went from "august body tasked with creating the dictionary of reference for the language" to "that palce where they store old writers, playwrights and old politicians with delusions of literary grandeur before they croak".3. Nobody gives a shiat about what they say, especially when it's related to new technologies and the use thereof.

Cheese eating surrender monkey:I know you lot like your annual let's mock the French for trying to keep their language, but remember that:1. there's no language police, no one will drag you to Devil's Island for uttering an english word2. the Académie Française went from "august body tasked with creating the dictionary of reference for the language" to "that palce where they store old writers, playwrights and old politicians with delusions of literary grandeur before they croak".3. Nobody gives a shiat about what they say, especially when it's related to new technologies and the use thereof.

Anyway, off to my two-hours lunch break with lots of wine.

Place, not palce, obviously.This place really needs an edit function. Get cracking, Drew.

RobSeace:Slaxl: AverageAmericanGuy: I don't see how this is very much different from the OED officially introducing words into the English language every year. I think "twerking" was a new one in 2013.

Au contraire, the OED don't make up these words, and didn't introduce them into English. You made up the words, they merely added existing words to their catalogue of existing words.

AAG is responsible for inventing "twerking" and other such abominations?? *readies the pitchforks and torches*

illannoyin:I remember a comedian doing a but about this using boat show as an example. In French it's a long phrase and in English it's just two words.

/For more information watch 'allo 'allo

It's only one word in Dutch.

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you're somehow obliged to use the French version of English terms, I can recommend http://granddictionaire.com/. You'll probably want to set langue d'interrogation to anglais in your préférences de recherche.

AverageAmericanGuy:I don't see how this is very much different from the OED officially introducing words into the English language every year. I think "twerking" was a new one in 2013.

Not like it hasn't been covered already, but the sheer absurdity and over-complication of things would be laughable if it just wasn't so damn sad.

The equivalent:

Whilst acknowledging that the subject matter to follow has been brought to point and discussed prior to this message; taking into consideration its gratuitously preposterous nature in conjunction with its excessive convolutedness one might find it rather humorous were it not so inclined to birth sorrow of great depths.